Norma Ware, Ph.D.
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Norma C. Ware is a medical anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ware conducts research on social and behavioral dimensions of HIV treatment and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. She is particularly interested in the use of qualitative research on user experiences to explain the dynamics of interventions to improve delivery of health care. Current research topics include: (1) a mobile outreach approach to delivering health services to Lake Victoria fishing communities in western Kenya; (2) evaluation of community-based HIV testing and ART delivery in South Africa and Uganda; (3) use of HIV self-testing and PrEP to facilitate linkage to HIV treatment and prevention services for male partners of HIV-infected pregnant women in Uganda; (4) qualitative evaluation of integrated delivery of PrEP and ART to HIV serodiscordant couples in Ugandan public health clinics; and (5) influences on uptake and adherence to periconception PrEP to reduce HIV risk in S. African women. In carrying out her research, Dr. Ware partners with the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; the International Clinical Research Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; the Infectious Diseases Institute of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya; and the Lake Victoria Consortium for Health Research, Entebbe, Uganda. Dr. Ware teaches at Harvard Medical School and collaborates widely with colleagues interested in the application of qualitative methods to research on health. She also mentors junior investigators. |
Affiliations:
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant:
Emily Pisarski
Dr. Ware conducts research on the delivery of HIV prevention and treatment services in sub-Saharan Africa. This research evaluates interventions aimed at improving service delivery, by examining intervention implementation processes. Current and recent projects focus on: (1) understanding implementation of real-time, point-of-care viral load testing by Ugandan public health care providers as an antiretroviral medication adherence intervention for pregnant women living with HIV; (2) explaining how Ugandan pregnant women living with HIV deliver and use HIV self-testing kits intended to promote testing among their male partners of unknown HIV status; (3) examining how Ugandan HIV care providers adapted a novel program of integrated HIV prevention and treatment services to promote feasibility and acceptability; and (4) investigating the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on continuing access to HIV care in Uganda.
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